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SERVICES

• Infrastructure Auditing

• Infrastructure Design & Strategy

• Kubernetes (Auditing, Implementation,

Support,Management)

• Cloud Migration

• Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet,

Ansible, Salt)

• CI/CD Pipeline Development (Jenkins,

Gitlab)

• Security Auditing (AppSec, NetSec)

• Cloud Cost Optimization

• Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, HDFS)

• Streaming (Kafka, Queuing)

• Training

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Viderity is an IT firm that provides DevOps and cloud services. We help companies build better software and shorten the time from development to production by leaving manual processes behind. We embra-ce an automated, collaborative, & agile way of working to increase your organization’s speed, reliability, and efficiency at scale.

We help guide your transition to the cloud by architecting & implementing custom enterprise grade cloud solutions. We engineer each solution to be flexible, fully scalable & highly available. We also enable complete management & automated deployment of your apps through custom CI/CD pipeline development & configuration management tools while providing 24/7 managed support.

Amazon Web Services

(AWS Standard Partner)

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

On-Premise

Hybrid

Openstack

Openshift

Nutanix

VMware

SERVICES PLATFORMS

Business Challenge

A nationwide bill payment service provider that’s been helping hundreds of thousands of

-geting and pay bills more conveniently was

The client migrated their JVM based payment application to a modular containerized service based architecture built with Spring Boot and needed to adopt modern DevOps infrastructure

DevOps Transformation

Scalability was critical because our client need-ed to be able to elastically scale its services without consuming precious engineering re-

IT infrastructure on Amazon Web Services

on automation through continuous delivery and

reinvent solutions to already-solved founda-tional infrastructure problems so we built and maintained all environments through our cus -

us the luxury of version-controlling their stack -

-

The creation of environment resources is com-

“DevOps practices enabled

Business Challenge Story

Our DevOps practice philosophy is about con-

operations felt responsible for incidents and

readily share successes and failures with one

-cesses that are supported with Docker enable developers to produce self- contained appli -

-

Results

-ture together with automation enhanced their

become clear that merging them has improved

Automation

Business Challenge

A worldwide insurance platform growing their operations wanted to make it easy for their en -gineers to ship applications from dev through a mature CI/CD pipeline into production. They desired to containerize all their applications for parity between environments, so that they could meet the scaling challenges that were quickly coming their way. Multi-region resil-iency, role based access controls, and other international regulatory restrictions were all required.

DevOps Transformation

The engineering team is distributed worldwide so communication and collaboration between them is critical. Operations had to be automat -ed from the time an engineer checked in code and made a pull request to the time it was de -ployed into production. We leveraged contain-erization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes to set up their infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. This allowed the team to deploy an account per environment, with a management account that oversees all operations between them all, as well as monitors, aggregates logs, and runs a Chef and CI/CD server. Each envi -ronment contains a Kubernetes cluster, with various supporting services running alongside the teams software.

Chef is utilized to provision the various resourc -es in Amazon Web Services, from a central OpsWorks-Managed Chef Server in the man-agement account. Basic cookbooks provision VPNs, and highly available Etcd backends, masters and nodes to ensure resiliency.

Open source tools like Jenkins, Elasticsearch, and Sensu are leveraged.

Results

Environments are all created via AWS Cloudfor -mation and Chef Cookbooks, and control the standing up and maintenance of VPCs, VPNs, monitoring stacks, and Kubernetes clusters.

Applications are written and checked into Version Control. Once changes are detected, Jenkins on Kubernetes starts the build process, which creates a Docker image and ships it to the EC2 Container Registry. Developers can run their applications within the Regional Sandbox, which is free for all to use, with built in Guard Rails. Additionally, a User Acceptance Test-ing environment runs a Kubernetes install and creates a version of the application for Quality Assurance. Once tests pass and the team is

-ning in production. Regressions are captured in the pipeline and stopped at the door prior to getting to production.

Monitoring the applications allows engineers the ability to instantly detect issues with their deployments and alert the team. Binary mon -itoring is through Sensu, with metrics being handled by Prometheus. Logs are aggregated with Fluentd and shipped to Elasticsearch and S3.

The engineering team is able to Build, Test, Deploy, and Monitor their work without having to be involved in the infrastructure at all. This is because the tooling allows them to access the items they need to ensure the applications are behaving correctly and consistently performant.

Standing up new regions is a process that takes less than an hour, and delivers a new VPC, VPN if needed and Kubernetes cluster with various items already stood up inside of it, ready to be used. Teams with access can then start using it immediately, because it mirrors the existing environments.

Conclusion

The team is able to ship dozens of applications -

to the cloud at scale, worldwide. The team is -

chine types anymore, instead spending their time delivering features.

Case Study: Using Mature DevOps and Container Orchestration to Deploy Applications Worldwide